Integration and The Gift
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In this world, where "White" is far too often equated with "Normal", it can be exceptionally difficult for someone who is White to perceive how this world's societies and structures have all been built up specifically in their interests. It is hard to look at something built to serve Whites and see it as such, because it is simply marked as "the norm" and something that doesn't need to be examined further. Whenever something is constructed to serve the interests of any racialized peoples, suddenly there becomes a need to label it as "unusual", "out of the norm", something to be scrutinized. The phrase, "Look, a white!" Is a gift, posits Yancy, because it allows White people to look at the world through a gaze that is not their own and recognize that the whole of this world is built on racialized structures and ideals. It is a phrase that seeks to cut through the ignorance of the White race, to serve as a marker to be reflected upon and called up whenever one recognizes that something is serving White people, when that thought might be overlooked prior. It allows a White person to view the world for what it really is, as opposed to the warped and ignorant view that they have been taught by society and its structures.
This is why Baldwin asks his Nephew to accept White people "with love". He asks his Nephew to understand the ignorance of the White people, to recognize it and to abolish it out of love. "Integration" as Baldwin talks about it is not the colonial understanding of assimilation, where a minor culture is consumed and erased by the major one, but rather the opposite: the opening of a dominant culture's eyes by the instruction of a minor culture. The integration Balwin talks about, the message he sends to his Nephew, is to share the gift of "Look, a White!" With those Whites who need the capability for this kind of reflection. Baldwin wishes for White people to experience the third and final part of the triple gaze: for White people to see themselves as the racialized view them.